buluma.alternatives

Ansible Role Alternatives

Set up alternatives

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Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/default/converge.yml and is tested every time there is a push, pull request, or release.

---
- name: converge
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: true

  roles:
    - role: buluma.alternatives

Before running the playbook, you need to prepare the machine. In Continuous Integration (CI), this is done using molecule/default/prepare.yml:

---
- name: prepare
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: false

  roles:
    - role: buluma.bootstrap

  tasks:
    - name: create a fake binary
      ansible.builtin.file:
        path: /bin/my_fake_binary
        state: touch
        mode: "0755"

You can also see a full explanation and example on using these roles.

Role Variables

Default values for the variables are in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for alternatives

# This shows how to use python3.7 if both
# python 2.7 and python 3.7 are on the system.
# alternatives_list:
#   - name: python
#     link: /usr/bin/python2.7
#     path: /usr/bin/python
#   - name: python
#     link: /usr/bin/python3.7
#     path: /usr/bin/python

alternatives_list: []